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Letter from a Toronto Jail
One of Canada’s prisoners of conscience, Mary Wagner, in a moving letter from her Vanier Centre cell,…
Richard John Neuhaus and the Church of Christ
Recently, I came across an essay by Professor Cathleen Kaveny, published in Commonweal magazine, criticizing Fr. Richard…
A Lost Chapter from Herodotus Concerning the Super Bowl
And in the distant empire of Usa there is a strange custom that takes place once per…
What Should College Students Read?
Last summer, if you were going to enroll in college at Washington State University, University of Wisconsin-Madison,…
Esther’s Exodus
Esther is a dramatic story of God’s rescue of the Jews, His clever inversion of Haman’s plot,…
Protestants and Writing
A number of people have raised objections of different sorts to my posts on Protestants and writing.…
Kings and Commanders
Revelation has several lists of social classes. The first is given when the Lamb opens the sixth…
First Links — 2.5.16
Dying Together Clare Coffey, American Conservative Meet the Cardinal who Recharges for Battle by Fasting from Food…
Justice, Justification, Baptism
Michael Gorman (Becoming the Gospel) points out what Richard Hays has called the “deft word-play” on the…
A Critical Memoir
Essay: A Critical Memoirby donald revellomnidawn, 64 pages, $17.95 D onald Revell did not write Essay: A…
Exodus and Gospel
In a 1962 article in JBL, Houston Smith traces the connections between Exodus and the gospel of…
The Quotable Jung
The Quotable Jungcollected and edited by judith harris, with tony woolfsonprinceton, 376 pages, $29.95 It is a…
Schumpeter on Ideology
In a famous 1949 essay on “Science and Ideology,” published in American Economic Review, Joseph Schumpeter highlighted…
Cinema, Time, Space
In his book, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918, Stephen Kern explores how technological innovations of…
Seal of the Spirit
The New Testament speaks of the “seal of the Spirit” in several places (2 Corinthians 1:22; Ephesians…
